washingtonmonthly.com - 1/26/2009
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JOB SECURITY FOR THE PERPETUALLY WRONG.... We learned this morning that the New York Times is finally letting go of Bill Kristol, who wrote his final column for the paper today. What we didn't know is where Kristol is headed....
bighollywood.breitbart.com - 1/26/2009
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bighollywood.breitbart.com —
On Sunday afternoon Weekly Standard editor and New
York Times columnist Bill Kristol — in an email...
exchange with Big Hollywood — agreed to debate Matt Damon on his Hollywood home turf after being informed the 38-year old actor ridiculed ...
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Iraq War Showdown: Bill Kristol Agrees to Debate Matt ...
thedailybeast.com - 1/26/2009
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thedailybeast.com —
The famous neoconservative published his final New York
Times column today. Scott Horton, who broke news on...
Kristol's involvement in the selection of Sarah Palin , reports on real reasons the Gray Lady didn't renew his contract. It must have been a ...
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The Sacking of Bill Kristol
washingtonmonthly.com - 1/26/2009
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washingtonmonthly.com —
KRISTOL LEAVES THE TIMES.... At the end of
an otherwise uninteresting New York Times column from Bill...
Kristol, there are six heartening words: This is William Kristol's last column. There's been some question as to whether Kristol's one-year contract ...
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Kristol leaves the Times
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Oh, hoo-fucking-ray!
Rising Hegemon —
Fred Hiatt, not content with paying Krauthammer, Broder, Richard Cohen, and a 'Kagan of the Month' column plans to add Billy Kristol to his menagerie of wanks. ...
Why the Devil smiles
The Sideshow —
... says, I didn't give the order, but someone around here gave the order. I said, Who gave the order? So he takes out his yellow pad of paper and he writes down - he says, I'm going to tell you. I'll get back to you and tell you. And I said, I'd like to know who gave the order, and write down the second question on your yellow pad there. Tell me why 140,000 U.S. troops in Iraq disobeyed the order. Write that down, too. And so that was not a successful conversation.Muted joy in Blogville - Just as we were all set to be jubilant over the words in the NYT at ...
Krazy Bill Kristol heads to WaPo
The Reaction —
... from this morning on Krazy Bill Kristol and the occasion of his last column for The New York Times. The Times, like Time before it, dumped Kristol following a relatively brief op-ed tenure writing what Steve Benen rightly calls "misguided, predictable, and dull columns." ...
Fred Hiatt on Kristol: ‘I thought he wrote a good column.’
Think Progress —
... — will soon take up residence at the op-ed pages of The Washington Post. Noting that “[i]t’s extraordinary to see the job security someone like Kristol enjoys,” Steve Benen asked, “In what universe does the nation’s second most prominent newspaper decide it wants to pay and publish the failed cast-off of its chief rival?” Perhaps a universe in which Fred Hiatt is boss. The Post’s editorial page editor ...
Feeding Off Failure: Bill Kristol, WaPo, and the Ongoing Prominence of Conservative Punditry
The Moderate Voice —
... The New York Times, like Time before it, has dumped neocon extraordinaire Bill Kristol following a relatively brief op-ed tenure writing what Steve Benen rightly calls “misguided, predictable, and dull columns.” (Check out Mustang Bobby’s ...
are we clear? kristol!
skippy the bush kangaroo —
... but don't cry for bill too much. steve benen reports that bill's going to write...albeit monthly...for the washpost: keep his career trajectory in mind. kristol, in 2007, wrote misguided, predictable, and dull columns for time magazine. when time fired him, the new york ...
Punch's gain is Fred's loss
Corrente —
Kristol being a net negative.
Yes, Bill Kristol's moving from Izvestia to Pravda. How nice for him; how nice for them; indeed, how nice for everyone. Read more…
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Bill Kristol's New York Times Column Ends
huffingtonpost.com 1/26/2009 — The speculation as to whether Bill Kristol will continue his career as a New York Times columnist can end. Buried at the end of his column Monday is this announcement :
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